{"id":28595,"date":"2016-03-30T15:00:06","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T19:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=28595"},"modified":"2016-03-30T14:44:59","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T18:44:59","slug":"ucf-ends-decile-reporting-for-unionville-hs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=28595","title":{"rendered":"UCF ends decile reporting for Unionville HS"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chromebook pilot to be expanded to cover all middle school students<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

By Mike McGann<\/span>,<\/strong> Editor, The Times<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"GPADistribution\"<\/a>

A sample GPA distribution \u2014 not one from an actual class \u2014 provided by the Unionville-Chadds Ford School district. This format of information is slated to replace reporting which decile \u2014 which slice of 10% \u2014 a Unionville High School student fall into in reporting to colleges and universities.<\/p><\/div>\n

PENNSBURY \u2014 The Unionville-Chadds Ford School District Board of Education voted Monday to stop providing Unionville High School students\u2019 decile rank \u2014 which tenth of the class their grad point averages were in \u2014 on transcripts for college applications.<\/span><\/p>\n

The board voted 7-2 \u2014 Robert Sage and Michael Rock voted no \u2014 to end the reporting and use an administrative guideline that would offer GPA ranges to put an individual\u2019s grades in context for colleges and universities.<\/span><\/p>\n

Additionally, the board agreed to discuss also including the top GPA in the class on the school profile, a topic that will be taken up at next month\u2019s work session. The changes are effective for the class of 2017. Rankings had typically been taken at the end of a student\u2019s junior year.<\/span><\/p>\n

While the vote on decile reporting capped a nearly year-long process, with a wide range of public comment, both pro and con, the final vote came fairly swiftly and minimal public comments prior to the vote. <\/span><\/p>\n

Rock voted no citing the fact that he felt the GPA distribution plan essentially amounted to providing decile information, while Sage \u2014 who attended via phone conference \u2014 opposed dropping the decile reporting, noting that high achieving students should be rewarded for their accomplishments.<\/span><\/p>\n

Students in the top 5% of their class will be recognized at graduation as Principal Scholars, while all graduating students with a GPA of 4.0 will be recognized in the commencement program.<\/span><\/p>\n

In other news, the board voted unanimously to expand the pilot test of Chromebooks at Patton Middle School to include all students, starting with the 2016-17 school year. The devices are laptop style computers with very little local storage that depend on Internet access and a suite of Google applications to run.<\/span><\/p>\n

After debating various pricing models over the last few weeks, the board opted to give parents three choices:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Option 1: A student\/parent may purchase a Chromebook at cost from the district (approximately $266) and would own the device outright. The cost will include insurance on the device. This option replaces one that would have seen a $75 yearly fee, that officials said ultimately was too logistically difficult to implement.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Option 2: The student will be issued a district-owned Chromebook and they will be allowed to\u00a0 <\/span>take the device home during the school year. Students\/parents will pay $20.00 a year for insurance to cover potential loss or damage. The unit would be turned in at the end of the school year.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Option 3: The student will be issued a district-owned Chromebook and they will be allowed to\u00a0 <\/span>take the device home during the school year. No insurance charge will be levied but students and\/or their parents would be responsible for any loss or damage of the device. The unit would be turned in at the end of the school year.<\/span><\/p>\n

Also: the board gave final approval on bids for renovation and repair projects scheduled for this summer at Patton Middle School. The auditorium is slated for renovations and roofing work will be done.<\/span><\/p>\n

Lastly, board member John Murphy offered congratulations the Unionville High School girls\u2019 hockey team which won the Flyers\u2019 Cup earlier this month.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chromebook pilot to be expanded to cover all middle school students By Mike McGann, Editor, The Times PENNSBURY \u2014 The Unionville-Chadds Ford School District Board of Education voted Monday to stop providing Unionville High School students\u2019 decile rank \u2014 which tenth of the class their grad point averages were in \u2014 on transcripts for college […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28594,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[7009,8202,4000],"class_list":["post-28595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-featured","tag-chromebooks","tag-decile","tag-unionville-chads-ford-school-district"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28596,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28595\/revisions\/28596"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}